In one of his writings, he defined beauty as a "despotic princess", subject to the "anarchies" of despotism in a section on "Ancient Art". He depicted a male figure with wings flying away from the first woman laying nude on the ground in The Dream of Eve, and he also depicted himself "In Conversation" with Johann Bodmer. This author of Lectures on Painting also executed a 
In one of his writings, he defined beauty as a "despotic princess", subject to the "anarchies" of despotism in a section on "Ancient Art". He depicted a male figure with wings flying away from the first woman laying nude on the ground in The Dream of Eve, and he also depicted himself "In Conversation" with Johann Bodmer. This author of Lectures on Painting also executed a portrait of the woman whose heart he broke, Mary Wollstonecraft. A muscular figure at the edge of a boat raises an axe in front of a blue monster in his (*) Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent. He remains best-known for depicting the dark image of a horse emerging from red curtains, and a ghastly figure approaching a sleeping woman. For 10 points, identify this painter of The Nightmare.
In one of his writings, he defined beauty as a "despotic princess", subject to the "anarchies" of despotism in a section on "Ancient Art".
{Henry Fuseli}